Kay Manion, M.D. — Adeline McElfresh

Doctor…and woman

Kay Manion had never run away from anything before. She had worked her way through medical school, she had never shirked the demanding duties of internship. She took justifiable pride in her skill as a surgeon -- until this particular operation.

Dr. Sylvester assured her that the patient was going to be all right; he realized Kay had been overworked at the hospital, that the social life of a beautiful young woman was demanding. But even if no one else ever found out, Kay would know, she had faltered during a serious operation.

So she ran away -- from her duties as a doctor, from her fiancé, from everything but herself. And in Woodbine, a town ravaged by floods and epidemic typhoid, for the first time she came face to face with the real Kay Manion -- doctor and woman.

Hero: Dr./Doctor Frank Sylvester or Silvester
Heroine: Dr./Doctor Kay Manion